Who were some romantic American authors and why were they important

Emily Dickinson, too, examined the American heart and mind, expressing freely individualistic ideas, ideas that for her were liberating. Other famous writers of the Romantic period in America are Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe.

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